I think it's important to let everyone know at this point that if a show is on Sky Atlantic it will probably not be shown on any other channel for the forseeable future. When Sky buy up the rights to show any of these series they attempt usually successfully to insert a clause which prevent s the show from being sold to anyone else who might compete with them. There are a few exceptions such as Blue Bloods which is shown on RTE (irish television channel) because the show was bought by RTE before Sky, Sky attempted to prevent RTE gaining access to season 2 but the makers refused on the grounds that RTE had come in first.

They must do things different. here, its all about syndication. (well mostly) getting a show popular enough, to last long enough, to get it into syndication where it can be bought by other networks and more money made on reruns.

"The reason an author needs to know the rules of grammar isn't so he or she never breaks them, but so the author knows how to break them."

It might have been deliberate. Shows use the little side-jokes all the time.

One recent one I caught was on an recent episode of The Office. It was the one where Jim took a week off pretending to be on jury duty. To 'prove' that Jim was lying, Dwight brings in the owners of a Hispanic food truck that fed the jury pool. As they're coming in, Dwight asks the food servers if they recognize Jim. One of them points at Jim and asks, "Quein es el hymie?" which roughly translates to "Who's the Jew?" ('Hymie' being one a lesser-known epithet for Jews). There was no reference to the line in the show itself, which made it even more hilarious--even I wasn't offended.

An Idiot Abroad: The Short Way Round - December on Sky1A Touch of Cloth - August on Sky1Futurama S8 - July on Sky1Mad Dogs S3 - Early 2013Mount Pleasant S2 - August on Sky1Raising Hope S2 - Sun, July 15 at 6.30pm on Sky1Sinbad S1 - Sun, July 8 on Sky1Strike Back S3 - September on Sky1Touch S2 - October on Sky1

Sky Living

Supernatural S7 - Wed, August 1 at 10pm on Sky Living

And the rest...

A Gifted Man S1 - Aug, Tuesday 7 at 9pm on WatchArrested Development S4 - 2013 on NetflixBurn Notice S5 - Mon, July 16 at 9pm on FXThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Mon, July 23 on Comedy Central Extra

Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.